is a really a wonderful way to learn and at the same time, you can also project to associated images.
“ For example, if you are looking at a leg and wanted to show an X-Ray of a broken leg, you can project through the lens the hologram of the leg, and then see what an x-ray of a broken leg looks like. There’ s a number of ways that you can integrate clinical, radiologic, histologic, and other types of images as you go through the hologram.
The other technology that we’ re thinking about also having preserves cadavers that have been plastinated,” added Dr. Ferguson. These are cadavers that have been specially prepared. They don’ t look like the gray, kind of smelly cadavers in the traditional lab. These are preserved in such a way that they really look the normal color of a human body. And these specimens can be a full body specimen, with some layers peeled off or individual organs being shown. This is a way that is also being used in many of the new schools to teach anatomy. And these specimens can be reused and reused and don’ t require the type of care and expense that a cadaver lab requires.” our anatomy experience is going to be a very rich one. And we can use these technologies throughout the years of medical school, and even with residents.
“ As we go into the detailed look at the cardiovascular system, for example, we can go back and easily look at the heart through the HoloLens. And now advancing the conversation beyond the anatomy, to what’ s the structure of it, we then start to talk about the physiology and how it works,” she noted.
Bottom line? Such technologies provide unique training insight for CDU students and faculty. The University will be in the unique position of utilizing an ultra-advanced technology toolkit to train students to treat the most in-need patients suffering from a variety of maladies.
The approach will be de-mystified beginning in the training process. This benefit will then be routinely offered to patients who historically have not had access to such technology, heretofore routinely offered in more affluent communities, and now available to them.
Dr. Ferguson noted computer-based programs that now allow the rotation of body parts to compile a digital textbook of the human body. The University is also looking at using that approach as well.“ I think
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